EP. 16 - A Conversation with Sober Trans Life and Business Coach: Jo Walduck

On this episode, Ally chats with Jo Walduck (she/they). Jo is a sober trans life and business coach based in Normandy, France. Since getting sober "just for a month" back in 2019, she has navigated her own chronic health struggles, coming out and transitioning in a foreign country during pandemia, losing two parents in 3 months, and has supported dozens of people on their own paths to and within recovery. And sometimes she wonders why she's tired!

 

Working with an approach recognizing the multiple pathways to recovery, Jo's own recovery encapsulates moving away from alcohol, nicotine, people pleasing, the white supremacist cis-hetero patriarchy and diet culture. It's all connected. Exploring trauma responses, survival roles and building sustainable recovery capital through the lens of positive psychology, NLP, IFS and SCT, Jo's number one client will always be herself. She also does 1:1 coaching and runs an online queer and feminist sober support group 100% free of diet culture.

 

You can find her chatting up the fromagère or the boulanger at the weekly markets, cleaning up after her pussycat, taking long wet walks on the beach in Dieppe, enjoying a pastry or two with her coffees, or trying to put goodness and gentleness out into the spaces she inhabits online.

 

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